to read, in their entirety, two books I just received and very pleasurably dipped into. Tom Beckett's *Unprotected Texts*(Meritage Press, 2006) and Mark Young's *the allgrezza ficcione* (Otoliths,2006)

Tom Beckett: "Poetry is relationships. That's my naked truth."

Mark Young: "There was also a book by Ptolemy, that seemed to be made up of footnotes to another work of his, a kind of growing self-doubt about his own beliefs, that finishes with a small poem: